Answers in line On Tuesday, 27 January 2015 06:05:26 UTC, Dwight Arthur wrote: > > *On: *Sunday, January 25 2015, Richard C wrote: > > […]Ok - I am confused. When you say 'you will see the effect of having > sorted them' - how will this have been done[…] > > This is very straightforward, don’t overthink it. In the All Tasks view, > select a parent item that has multiple subtasks. Right click on the parent > item, select Advanced and then Sort Subtasks. On the “Sorting” popup, > select “caption” – Ascending for the first line. It does not matter much > what if anything shows in the other three lines. Hit “OK”. The subtasks > should immediately jump into alphabetical order. This is not caused by the > view you are using. Rather, the subtasks have been actually moved in the > outline to a new order that’s alphabetical. > > Yup - agree with that and when the option isn't greyed out, it works fine and as you describe.
> > > Incidentally, do you know what happens if you use the view Sort button in > a hierarchical view. Does it sort the children of each parent into the > specified order? > > The ‘Sort” in the main view definition sorts the top level of the items > being displayed; in a hierarchical view no children are sorted. > Thanks - that's useful to know > If I open up my All tasks view - which is a hierarchical view without any > filters or sorting - the Sort Sub-tasks is ungreyed (what one would expect) > but if I then apply a Show only those completed in the last 3 days filter, > the Sort sub-tasks view is still ungreyed. Whereas, it is greyed in my > All tasks (Recent completed) view which appears to have exactly the same > set of filtering parameters. Very odd. > > I have several excellent explanations of this, following a little > experimentation I find that none of them work. So I can conclusively say > that I haven’t a clue of what’s going on. > :-) I posted a support request and Andrey (indirectly) as asked for a copy of my file showing the problem. Will report back. > -Dwight > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/f84ac0cb-1bb3-429a-9f23-1847017369ba%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
